1. In the Soviet Workers' and Peasants' Republic, the entire organization of enlightenment—both in the sphere of political education generally and specifically in the sphere of art—must be permeated with the spirit of the class struggle of the proletariat for the successful achievement of the aims of its dictatorship, that is, for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, for the elimination of classes, for the removal of all exploitation of man by man.

2. Therefore, the proletariat, both in the person of its vanguard, the Communist Party, and in the person of the entire mass of all manner of proletarian organizations generally, must take the most active and most decisive part in all matters of public enlightenment.

3. The entire experience of recent history, and especially more than half a century of revolutionary struggle by the proletariat of all countries in the world since the appearance of the *Communist Manifesto*, has indisputably proven that only the Marxist worldview represents the correct expression of the interests, viewpoint, and culture of the revolutionary proletariat.

4. Marxism has won itself its world-historical significance as the ideology of the revolutionary proletariat because Marxism has by no means rejected the most valuable achievements of the bourgeois epoch, but rather has assimilated and reworked everything that was valuable in more than two thousand years of development of human thought and culture. Only further work on this foundation and in this same direction, animated by the practical experience of the dictatorship of the proletariat as its final struggle against all exploitation, can be recognized as the development of genuinely proletarian culture.

5. Standing unwaveringly on this principled viewpoint, the All-Russian Congress of Proletkult most decisively rejects, as both theoretically incorrect and practically harmful, all attempts to invent some special culture of their own, to close themselves within their isolated organizations, to delineate the spheres of work of Narkompros and Proletkult, or to establish the "autonomy" of Proletkult within the institutions of Narkompros, and so forth. On the contrary, the Congress imposes upon all organizations of Proletkult the absolute obligation to regard themselves entirely as auxiliary organs of the network of Narkompros institutions and to carry out, under the general direction of Soviet power (specifically Narkompros) and the Russian Communist Party, their tasks as part of the tasks of the proletarian dictatorship.

Comrade Lunacharsky says he has been misrepresented. All the more is this resolution absolutely necessary.

Written 8 October 1920

First published in 1926 in the journal *Krasnaya Nov'* no. 3

Printed from the manuscript